Oiler wins hurdles races at SEOAL meet

Gallia Academy’s Madi Oiler captured the championships of both the 100m and 300m hurdles races during Saturday’s Southeastern Ohio Athletic League track and field meet at Logan Chieftain Stadium.

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LOGAN, Ohio — It was Gallia Academy’s final Southeastern Ohio Athletic League track and field meet.

Madi Oiler made sure she cleared every hurdle.

And that she did, as Oiler was the Blue Angels’ — or even the Blue Devils’ — only all-league performer, capturing the championships in both SEOAL girls hurdles races on Saturday inside chilly Logan Chieftain Stadium.

The final four-team SEOAL meet featured only a few of Gallia Academy’s athletes, as most of them had competed just 18 hours earlier on Friday night in the Ohio Valley Conference championship meet.

To earn all-SEOAL status, an individual had to win his or her event, and Oiler swept the girls hurdles races for half (12) of the Blue Angels’ 23 points.

The junior won the 100m hurdles in 16.93 seconds, as the next closest competitor was over a full second slower (18.03).

In the 300m hurdles, Oiler amassed a victorious time of 49.46 seconds — the only lady to run under 50 as the runner-up almost ran a flat 52 (51.97 seconds).

Oiler’s teammate in the hurdles, senior Jamie Canfield, finished fourth in the 100m and fifth in the 300m.

Oiler also anchored the Blue Angels’ runner-up 4x400m relay team, which ran the four-lap race in four minutes and 32 seconds — and trailed Logan’s foursome by only slightly over a second (4:31.02).

Fellow junior Mary Watts was the third leg for GAHS, while freshman Erin Lincoln opened and sophomore Hailey Deem was the second.